One of my favorite films of the year (so far) comes out on DVD today here in the US. While there has been a good deal of critical acclaim for Hot Fuzz I'm not sure how the regular American movie-goer feels. I heard one person I kind of know say it "wasn't funny at all, not even a little" and my friend I watched it with didn't seem to be too into it, but screw those guys, I absolutely love this movie. I've seen it 3 times already and I am pretty certain a 4th viewing is in order tonight. Definitely check it out if you haven't.
Anyway, the reason I'm mentioning this rather obvious news is give people a heads up on the Wal-Mart exclusive bonus disc. Unlike most "exclusive bonus discs", this one is actually very much worth picking up, with three hours of material. The Region 2 DVD released last month was loaded with material spread over 2-discs, but when they announced the Region 1 release they mentioned it would be missing several of those features. Now, Wal-Mart is evil, and I wouldn't normally suggest anyone go near one, but this is the only non-HD way to get a lot of the extras (maybe all of them, I'm not 100% sure) from the R2 set without having to pay a lot to get that one shipped over here. So if you enjoy special features I'd pick this one up. Plus, as you can see, the extra disc has a great image of Nicholas and Danny firing two guns whilst jumping through the air, that's gotta be worth something.
Alright, I suppose that's enough celebrity death and DVD news for now. I will most likely have some music up later on this evening, so be sure to check back.
One of my favorite films of the year (so far) comes out on DVD today here in the US. While there has been a good deal of critical acclaim for Hot Fuzz I'm not sure how the regular American movie-goer feels. I heard one person I kind of know say it "wasn't funny at all, not even a little" and my friend I watched it with didn't seem to be too into it, but screw those guys, I absolutely love this movie. I've seen it 3 times already and I am pretty certain a 4th viewing is in order tonight. Definitely check it out if you haven't.
Anyway, the reason I'm mentioning this rather obvious news is give people a heads up on the Wal-Mart exclusive bonus disc. Unlike most "exclusive bonus discs", this one is actually very much worth picking up, with three hours of material. The Region 2 DVD released last month was loaded with material spread over 2-discs, but when they announced the Region 1 release they mentioned it would be missing several of those features. Now, Wal-Mart is evil, and I wouldn't normally suggest anyone go near one, but this is the only non-HD way to get a lot of the extras (maybe all of them, I'm not 100% sure) from the R2 set without having to pay a lot to get that one shipped over here. So if you enjoy special features I'd pick this one up. Plus, as you can see, the extra disc has a great image of Nicholas and Danny firing two guns whilst jumping through the air, that's gotta be worth something.
Alright, I suppose that's enough celebrity death and DVD news for now. I will most likely have some music up later on this evening, so be sure to check back.
Sorry for the quality on the images here. I had to reduce the quality since the files were huge.
ReplyDeleteHot Fuzz was a disappointment in my book. I was quite fond of Shaun of the Dead but HF didn't do it for me. Somehow a cockney zombie movie seems more believable than a rural-England-meets-Hollywood action flick. If you're a Simon Pegg fan check out Spaced.
ReplyDeleteSadly it looks as if the Region 1 disc will only have one of the four commentaries from the British disc.
ReplyDeleteJust wait they will do the super duper special limited edition double dip in a year or so. Ugh!
ReplyDeleteHave Spaced love it!
damn every wal-mart in my area only stocks the two pack with the full-screen edition. what a waste.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Widescreen seems to be rather difficult to find from what I'm hearing. The regular non-exclusive DVD in the set is sealed so a lot of people are buying the fullscreen set, going back later and just returning the DVD for the widescreen version.
ReplyDeleteI lucked out, when I got to the store they only had fullscreen on the shelf and just as I turned to leave a guy pushed a huge Hot Fuzz display with a hundred copies right by me.
i was thinking about doing the same thing... that would work because wal-mart stocks the two disc set under the same number as the regular disc...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads up on this man. I tend to ignore those Wal-Mart 2-packs as they're usually just fluff, but this is awesome.
ReplyDeleteImporting the region 2 here in Canada cost me about $5 more than buying the region 1 would. And I got the movie two months earlier.
ReplyDeleteAnd, as someone pointed out, you're still missing *3* commentaries.
It's criminal what they did to the R1 release.